Sam Bo
@sammargh.bsky.social
build clouds for a living | fix and make old hardware do stupid things otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | games are fun too
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so the ebay app had a moment this morning on my ipad
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
so the ebay app had a moment this morning on my ipad
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for mario’s anniversary here’s a video of one of the earliest nintendo emulators i can find on the internet. this is pasofami for the fm-towns released in 1994!
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
for mario’s anniversary here’s a video of one of the earliest nintendo emulators i can find on the internet. this is pasofami for the fm-towns released in 1994!
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Turns out osx kitty is a getty image as are a lot of the default early osx profile pictures www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo...
August 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Turns out osx kitty is a getty image as are a lot of the default early osx profile pictures www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo...
I got a new (to me) smoker from a friend yesterday and set the app up today. I’m happy with the nickname I selected for the Pit Boss 💃
August 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I got a new (to me) smoker from a friend yesterday and set the app up today. I’m happy with the nickname I selected for the Pit Boss 💃
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First screenshots of the first ever Pioneer LaserActive emulator, courtesy of Nemesis running as part of Ares. Major preservation milestone right here.
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
First screenshots of the first ever Pioneer LaserActive emulator, courtesy of Nemesis running as part of Ares. Major preservation milestone right here.
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Last night I got access to a digitized film reel from 1969 that shows off a computer artillery game called Potshot. And to explain why that’s a big deal, I need to talk about Dartmouth and the BASIC computer language.
Here’s a clue that will probably only mean something to 5 people
July 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Last night I got access to a digitized film reel from 1969 that shows off a computer artillery game called Potshot. And to explain why that’s a big deal, I need to talk about Dartmouth and the BASIC computer language.
lucy hopes you have a safe and happy holiday weekend
July 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
lucy hopes you have a safe and happy holiday weekend
Oh! Egg on my face! I was going to use my Wii U.
July 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Oh! Egg on my face! I was going to use my Wii U.
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#PicoGUS firmware v3.1.0 is released. It adds the ability to load a CD image by name and has *many* fixes for cd image listing and loading. github.com/polpo/picogu...
Release v3.1.0 · polpo/picogus
Fixes
CD-ROM emulation
Many fixes/improvements to CD image handling:
Add ability to load image by name
Fix memory leak when changing images (file handle not freed, causing crash after switching im...
github.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#PicoGUS firmware v3.1.0 is released. It adds the ability to load a CD image by name and has *many* fixes for cd image listing and loading. github.com/polpo/picogu...
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implemented a script for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer that lets you discover the connectivity of any IC with JTAG boundary scan, provided you can give the IC an arbitrary stimulus (here done by using a glasgow output connected to a needle point probe)
May 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
implemented a script for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer that lets you discover the connectivity of any IC with JTAG boundary scan, provided you can give the IC an arbitrary stimulus (here done by using a glasgow output connected to a needle point probe)
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#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS
May 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS
this was a default user profile image you could select in osx since the early days and i often wonder who osx kitty is. at some point i had found a high resolution picture of the cat but it was never attributed
May 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
this was a default user profile image you could select in osx since the early days and i often wonder who osx kitty is. at some point i had found a high resolution picture of the cat but it was never attributed
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The link below is an email conversation that took place between ex-WMS engineers during COVID. Someone in the group asked about the history of the old systems and their acronyms. And this is what came out. Enjoy!
github.com/lkoziarz/pin...
github.com/lkoziarz/pin...
github.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The link below is an email conversation that took place between ex-WMS engineers during COVID. Someone in the group asked about the history of the old systems and their acronyms. And this is what came out. Enjoy!
github.com/lkoziarz/pin...
github.com/lkoziarz/pin...
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Embracing the meme caption that I wrote in EGM 30 years ago. 🤓
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Embracing the meme caption that I wrote in EGM 30 years ago. 🤓
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Fellow translation patch developers, I'm proud to announce the v1.0 release of TextSleuth, my brute-force search utility to identify non-standard text encoding formats. It supports multi-threading and a host of useful options, like wildcards!
DOWNLOAD:
github.com/DerekPascare...
DOWNLOAD:
github.com/DerekPascare...
April 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Fellow translation patch developers, I'm proud to announce the v1.0 release of TextSleuth, my brute-force search utility to identify non-standard text encoding formats. It supports multi-threading and a host of useful options, like wildcards!
DOWNLOAD:
github.com/DerekPascare...
DOWNLOAD:
github.com/DerekPascare...
in-laws were having problems with their corporate wordpress install and asked if i’d look.
“i can probably help but been nearly 2 decades since touching wordpress but sure i’ll try”
is this some sort of schrodinger’s cat plugin or what the fuck?
“i can probably help but been nearly 2 decades since touching wordpress but sure i’ll try”
is this some sort of schrodinger’s cat plugin or what the fuck?
April 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
in-laws were having problems with their corporate wordpress install and asked if i’d look.
“i can probably help but been nearly 2 decades since touching wordpress but sure i’ll try”
is this some sort of schrodinger’s cat plugin or what the fuck?
“i can probably help but been nearly 2 decades since touching wordpress but sure i’ll try”
is this some sort of schrodinger’s cat plugin or what the fuck?
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men want one thing and it's disgusting
March 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
men want one thing and it's disgusting
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The next thing you were handed as a pinball programmer at Williams was the development system. This was your companion cube for the duration of the project.
This was the WPC successor to the System 11 debugger named BLACK FLAG. The WPC version was called ORKIN (after the exterminating company).
This was the WPC successor to the System 11 debugger named BLACK FLAG. The WPC version was called ORKIN (after the exterminating company).
March 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The next thing you were handed as a pinball programmer at Williams was the development system. This was your companion cube for the duration of the project.
This was the WPC successor to the System 11 debugger named BLACK FLAG. The WPC version was called ORKIN (after the exterminating company).
This was the WPC successor to the System 11 debugger named BLACK FLAG. The WPC version was called ORKIN (after the exterminating company).
“welcome to vegas! wanna play iidx?”
March 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“welcome to vegas! wanna play iidx?”
meal prepping for the week
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
meal prepping for the week
I’m installing FreeBSD 2.1.0 to my PC-9821AS. It has 14MB ram and Canopus PowerWindow 928G so XFree86 should work well on it!
Funny enough the installer sees the full 16GB HD but appears to only like the first 2991MB. This is a common problem on early OSes, Win9x can’t handle large partitions well.
Funny enough the installer sees the full 16GB HD but appears to only like the first 2991MB. This is a common problem on early OSes, Win9x can’t handle large partitions well.
February 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I’m installing FreeBSD 2.1.0 to my PC-9821AS. It has 14MB ram and Canopus PowerWindow 928G so XFree86 should work well on it!
Funny enough the installer sees the full 16GB HD but appears to only like the first 2991MB. This is a common problem on early OSes, Win9x can’t handle large partitions well.
Funny enough the installer sees the full 16GB HD but appears to only like the first 2991MB. This is a common problem on early OSes, Win9x can’t handle large partitions well.